Accounts for 1965

1965 Accounts

The following are excerpts from the 1965 Certified Statement of Accounts, held at the V&A (ACGB/51/1265)

It is curious that no payment was made for music hire… It is also interesting to see the insistence with which the Arts Council corrects the accounts to conform to their commitment to guarantee 5 concerts and not six. There seems to have been a close eye kept on ensuring that the support the arts council gave was transparent and not confused with overall support for the summer school. One thinks of how rarely the arts council is credited as such in today’s concert programmes, where, instead, an arts council logo appears alongside other supporters. The full amount of the guarantee was paid, since the reduced deficit was still more than double the guarantee.

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A

£350 Guarantee for series of 5 concerts

Number in the audience: [red hand in margin] (45+105 students free*)

150 average per concert (6 in all) including 100 students.

Capacity of the Hall (i) Seats:

160/180

(ii) £

124- 10- 6

B

Artists and other taking part

Melos Ensemble 600- : – :

Bethany Beardslee 100- : – :

Edward Downes 100- : – :

Leonard Stein 40- : – :

Eric Roseberry 40- : – :

Alan Hacker 40- : – :

John Aldis 30- : – :

Stephen Pruslin 25- : – :

Roger Smalley 10- : – :

Additional Players 100- : – :

C Receipts

Single Tickets:

25@5/- 6- 5- :

55@7/6 20- 12- 6

186@10/6 97- 13- :

[total, written in red ink] 124 10- 6

Sale of Programmes:

199@1/- & 2/6d 18- 11- 6

Payments:

Totally Fees and Payments to Artists Etc (as above): 1.085- : – :

Hall:

No Charge made

Piano: Hire 15- 15- : [this is unclear and these figures could apply to moving/tuning]

Moving: 24- : – :

Tuning:

Printing: Tickets: 7- 10- :

Programmes: 136- 19- :

Publicity: Leaflets: 43- 11- :

Posters 10- 5- :

Postage and Telephone: 16- 6- 2

Hire of Music:

A Grants Paid, Donations, and any other income – with details

Contribution from Summer School. (6 concerts at £50 each): 300- :- :

[in red ink] 300 [|] 124- 10- 6- [|] Total “[??] income” 424- 10- 6

Total Receipts: 503-2- :

[in green] less £57- 18- 6 = 445- 3- 6

[in green] DEF: 714- 2- 8

F Balance Deficit

836- 4- 2

[in red ink] SPNM to make a grant of £250 [pencil in the margins] ???

Total £1. 339- 6- 2

[in green] less £180 = 1,159- 6- 2

E

Balance Surplus: £1. 339- 6- 2

[in green] These accounts are for six concerts instead of five (see correspondence) and figures for five events are given in green. H.R.